Jupiter

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The two parents ran downstairs to Earth breathing heavily, Venus shouting at Mercury, Mercury shouting at Venus, Mars waving around a laminated sheet of paper, Luna standing on the table and Uranus trying to prevent Neptune from panicking.

"What is going on?" Yelled Jupiter.

Everyone froze.

Except Earth who looked pale and still breathing heavily.

"Earth's dying," Mars said, frantically.

"Why would you say that?" Saturn asked, surprisingly calmly.

"I,I can't breathe," Earth said.

"Human need to breath right?" Asked Uranus but he was ignored.

"Yes, you can, you can do this," Saturn tried to comfort, but he was improvising heavily.

"What happened?" Jupiter asked as Saturn tried to comfort Earth.

"Mercury threw pieces of paper out of the box and Earth started to die," Venus explained.

"He's not dying," Luna said from the table, "He has asthma,"

"Asthma?" Mars questioned.

"Yes, why?"

"The poster Mercury threw out of the box is about asthma." Mars replied.

The poster was bright and covered with pictures of children/adults with the blue L shaped thing called inhalers and they helped with asthma attacks which could be caused by infections like colds and flu, allergies, or airborne irritants like dust, smoke or-

"Jupiter what are we going to do?" asked Mercury.

"Okay, okay, okay, okay, Luna find Earth's inhaler, Mars read out the instructions on how to use for the inhaler, Venus and Mercury go get a bowl of water from the kitchen for Earth." Jupiter said.

As the four went off, Uranus and Neptune approached Jupiter.

"Can we help?" Uranus asked, with a more relaxed Neptune.

"Yes, can you and Neptune look at the other posters that Mercury threw out of the box?"

Jupiter said as Saturn helped Earth work the inhaler.

After a few minutes, Earth's breathing returned to normal.

"Are you okay?" Saturn asked.

"Yeah, yes I think I am," Earth said.

"What have I missed?"

The family looked at their missing members who was standing at the door.

Jupiter wanted to say something but Saturn beat him to it,

"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?"

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